Isiah Thomas: The FIU coach and occasional NY Knick silent adviser sat down with Bill Reiter of Fox Sports and cursed and talked about being hated by a lot of his former peers and friends. You could tell he’s still chapped Magic Johnson hates him (“He chose to believe something that his agent, Lon Rosen, told him — which is totally just a bulls— lie. Just a flat-out lie.”) and his reaction to Charles Barkley saying he needs to win to get his act together upsets him. This quote said a lot about his ego: “I beat the s— out of them when they were that big. If we were all the same size, f—. Make them 6-1 and let’s go on the court.” He’s talking about Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. [Fox Sports]